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Time moves on.......
The last veteran of World War Two's Great Escape, Jack Lyons, has died at the age of 101 - just days before the 75th anniversary of the audacious bid for freedom.
Interesting to read his view on the film........... (re the BBC link below)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-47540103
Here’s a piece on Dick Churchill, one of the 76 who actually escaped, who died in February.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47257570
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Strangely, I visited a prisoner of war camp on Monday.
I was in Yorkshire over the weekend & stopped off at Eden Camp in Malton on the way back. It was a British prison camp, holding 1,500 foreign prisoners during World War 2.
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